Pogo

arturl no longer available?

Asked by VastOne

In earlier versions of Pogo, I was able to pull arturl from mpris and run scripts against the output. In the latest version, arturl is no longer available..

Was this a milestone removal?

Can it be added back?

These python scripts are for Conky use to display the dbus/mpris output to the desktop.. I can display everything except album/coverart

I see that Pogo is putting the art in /tmp in a random generated name.. Another solution would be to pipe that random name to 'cover' so that a script might pull from /tmp based on 'cover'

I have ppl asking to create these scripts for Pogo and I would like to deliver..

Thanks

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Best Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) said : 		#1

Hmm, I don't remember removing anything related to the cover. I have applied the patch from the original player (decibel) and two symbolic links are created dynamically now when a new cover is used: ~/.config/pogo/current-cover and ~/.config/pogo/current-cover-small

The fix is available in trunk. Can you try it? https://answers.launchpad.net/pogo/+faq/1446

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VastOne (vastone) said : 		#2

I did try the new fix from trunk and it is a much better solution...

I had created a find script that ran and determined the newest and largest png file from /tmp that was working but now all I needed to add is that static file (current-cover.png) to my conky and it works fantastic

Here is an image of the finished product

http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-09042011-035606pm.php

Note the BitRate ... It carries two additional characters.. Not a big deal but I believe that can be parsed to show just the 3 characters..

I appreciate you looking into this and making the change to the symbolic links and static naming conventions.. makes scripting so much easier

If you have a place I can post a How To on Conky with Pogo, I would be more than happy to do it

Thanks!

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VastOne (vastone) said : 		#3

Thanks Jendrik Seipp, that solved my question.

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Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) said : 		#4

For the instructions you could just ask a new question "How do I use
conky with pogo?" here and provide the answer yourself. Thanks for your
work on this!